# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1048 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1049 --- ## [Where should we spend the weekend in Europe?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-we-spend-the-weekend-in-europe/695063)
**Author:** [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-we-spend-the-weekend-in-europe/695063 "2014-08-11T15:41:41Z")
My wife will be going on a business trip to London in two weeks, and then needs to be in Helsinki the following week. It looks like I can actually get award travel to go with her, so we’re trying to figure out where to g… --- ## [Tell the newbie about solar panels](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-the-newbie-about-solar-panels/695050)
**Author:** [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-the-newbie-about-solar-panels/695050 "2014-08-11T14:21:07Z")
So, I started looking into a solar panel for camping, and have run into a dizzying array of choices and selections. Not to mention the “inverters” or “converters” or what have you. So, I ask The Dope, what would I need f… --- ## [Any new-join OPs start off with an intensely personal OP, then acheive lasting status?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-new-join-ops-start-off-with-an-intensely-personal-op-then-acheive-lasting-status/695269)
**Author:** [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-new-join-ops-start-off-with-an-intensely-personal-op-then-acheive-lasting-status/695269 "2014-08-11T13:10:39Z")
l am referring to the poster who joins for the sole purpose of posting a (usually long and rambling) post about their love life or lack thereof, their horrible or hateful family, or some other very personal situation. A… --- ## [Witty name for used car dealership?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witty-name-for-used-car-dealership/693360)
**Author:** [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2014, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witty-name-for-used-car-dealership/693360 "2014-08-11T11:37:33Z")
A friend of mine is getting their car dealership license, but before they do that, they’re looking for a witty yet relevant name. So I turn to you, my fellow dopers. Suggestions? --- ## [Which printer brand(s) do you trust?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-printer-brand-s-do-you-trust/695252)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2014, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-printer-brand-s-do-you-trust/695252 "2014-08-11T06:34:03Z")
I am in the market for a new printer. I have owned printers by a few different manufacturers in the past but I have yet to develop any sense of brand loyalty. Maybe I’ve just been unlucky, but I’ve never owned one that … --- ## [Is the internet killing religion?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-internet-killing-religion/694286)
**Author:** [@Razncain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Razncain)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2014, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-internet-killing-religion/694286 "2014-08-11T06:13:41Z")
Christian apologist, Josh McDowell, certainly seems to think so and is dismayed by it all. He thinks the internet is the greatest threat to Christians and cites several studies. That was a few years back in 2011. I like … --- ## [Back pain triggers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-pain-triggers/695228)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-pain-triggers/695228 "2014-08-11T03:37:46Z")
What have you been able to positively identify as a back pain trigger? For myself when I was younger and doing heavy manual labor pushing a grocery cart at the super market was one of the worst. Another bad one is the sa… --- ## [Just watched the nightly news...umm, WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-watched-the-nightly-news-umm-wtf/694996)
**Author:** [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-watched-the-nightly-news-umm-wtf/694996 "2014-08-11T01:49:47Z")
ABC’s, to be specific. And I was utterly appalled by what I saw. First two stories were about the hurricanes approaching Hawaii, and an Ebola outbreak. So far so good…but then… 2 pieces on accidents, a bus hit and… --- ## [Which printer brand(s) to you most trust?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-printer-brand-s-to-you-most-trust/695260)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-printer-brand-s-to-you-most-trust/695260 "2014-08-11T00:52:11Z")
I messed up in posting this poll. I will ask mods to close it and we can carry on here. So… I am in the market for a new printer. I have owned printers by a few different manufacturers in the past but I have yet to dev… --- ## [Question about short/long term disability insurance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-short-long-term-disability-insurance/694609)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-short-long-term-disability-insurance/694609 "2014-08-10T20:58:14Z")
Is it possible for a person who has a chronic disease to purchase short and/or long-term disability insurance? I’m not talking about long-term care insurance (which I take to be the thing that will pay for nursing home, … --- ## [What do you consider "middle age"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-middle-age/695238)
**Author:** [@Mr.Natural](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Natural)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-middle-age/695238 "2014-08-10T20:15:52Z")
I think life expectancy in the US is about 80 yrs now so, technically, middle age would be about 40, but it’s kind of a subjective term. I’m thinking maybe 38-50. What do you think? --- ## [Maltese Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maltese-dog/695193)
**Author:** [@Pauly01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pauly01)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maltese-dog/695193 "2014-08-10T19:40:16Z")
Anyone here had a maltese dog or have experience with a maltese dog or puppy? I’m currently staying at someones house and they have a maltese dog. I was told its 12 years old or so and when i saw it last year, i always… --- ## [My mailman is an idiot. Is there anything I can do about it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mailman-is-an-idiot-is-there-anything-i-can-do-about-it/693798)
**Author:** [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2014, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mailman-is-an-idiot-is-there-anything-i-can-do-about-it/693798 "2014-08-10T12:31:06Z")
I’m not generally one of those haters on the post office - I think it’s great that they’ll mail any document to anywhere in the country in two days for like 45 cents, or whatever a letter costs these days. But customer s… --- ## [Do you want to survive the apocalypse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-want-to-survive-the-apocalypse/695161)
**Author:** [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2014, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-want-to-survive-the-apocalypse/695161 "2014-08-10T11:48:52Z")
The Earth is about to to hit by deadly space rays. A mysterious stranger tells you 99% of humanity will die. He asks you if you’d like to survive. If you say yes, you, your partner, or if you are single, your best fri… --- ## [What Brands Have You Given Up On And Why?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brands-have-you-given-up-on-and-why/694301)
**Author:** [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Replies:** 113\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brands-have-you-given-up-on-and-why/694301 "2014-08-10T02:28:38Z")
I’ve given up on Dr Martens boots, despite owning and loving at last 8 pairs over the last 30-odd years. I gave up on them in part because they outsourced their production to China a while back and the quality nosedived:… --- ## [Does this sound like "biliary colic"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-sound-like-biliary-colic/695188)
**Author:** [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-sound-like-biliary-colic/695188 "2014-08-10T00:54:16Z")
I ate a warm brownie with ice cream. Less than an hour later I’m having sharp, cramplike pain just below my ribcage that radiates into my right shoulder. No other indigestion, just pain, which makes my abdomen bloat out … --- ## [Is thre an alternative to Wikipedia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thre-an-alternative-to-wikipedia/695098)
**Author:** [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thre-an-alternative-to-wikipedia/695098 "2014-08-09T23:01:32Z")
Is there another site that is generally edited by users who know something about the subject, but is not just narrowly focussed on one subject, and doesn’t have the priggish entrenched arsehole attitude amongst its edito… --- ## [Do grey aliens exist?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683)
**Author:** [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683 "2014-08-09T22:30:50Z")
I’m a skeptical person but I really do think they exist. It’s interesting how so many people have reported seeing them. I’ve never seen one but I’ve “felt” their presence and had highly disturbing dreams involving them. --- ## [Let's create a SD fad diet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-a-sd-fad-diet/695118)
**Author:** [@iljitsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iljitsch)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-a-sd-fad-diet/695118 "2014-08-09T21:53:08Z")
In my humble opinion the world doesn’t have enough fad diets. So let’s make our own. The idea is to base a diet on a completely ridiculous notion, but then see how we can have some fun with it and come up with a diet tha… --- ## [Life makes me mad: advice requested \[edited\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-makes-me-mad-advice-requested-edited/694994)
**Author:** [@existexistence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/existexistence)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-makes-me-mad-advice-requested-edited/694994 "2014-08-09T21:52:58Z")
OK. I am new so forgive me if my post is so exceedingly mundane that it doesn’t belong here. I google my issues and a lot of the time it leads me to forums from people with similar issues and this helps. But today I goog… --- ## [What does your white room look like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-white-room-look-like/695028)
**Author:** [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-white-room-look-like/695028 "2014-08-09T15:50:24Z")
Imagine that you are in a white room – what does it look like to you? How do you picture it? Is it large or small? Is there anything (or anyone) in there with you? What are you doing and what are you wearing? As little … --- ## [Should Britain have stayed out of WWI?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-britain-have-stayed-out-of-wwi/695159)
**Author:** [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-britain-have-stayed-out-of-wwi/695159 "2014-08-09T13:40:04Z")
As you probably know it’s (just over) 100 years since Britain entered the First World War, costing her and the Empire somewhere around 3 million casualties (killed, missing, taken prisoner and wounded). On its centenary… --- ## [Is the verb 'to bogart' should be official. Driving your old English teacher crazy.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-verb-to-bogart-should-be-official-driving-your-old-english-teacher-crazy/695075)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-verb-to-bogart-should-be-official-driving-your-old-english-teacher-crazy/695075 "2014-08-09T04:26:56Z")
Do you use bogart to mean “take over” or “hog”? Is it an "official’ word? Where is the list of official English words kept? What word do you think should be on that list but isn’t. Copasetic has made it by now, surely. … --- ## [Any truth to Randy Queen's claim?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-truth-to-randy-queens-claim/695055)
**Author:** [@dstarfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dstarfire)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-truth-to-randy-queens-claim/695055 "2014-08-09T02:27:39Z")
Background: If you haven’t heard the story of this idiot, here’s the short version: Queen created a comic book series Darkchylde many years ago (the 90’s, I think). Recently, somebody has been criticizing his art as bein… --- ## [Any massage therapists in the house?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-massage-therapists-in-the-house/694506)
**Author:** [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 8, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-massage-therapists-in-the-house/694506 "2014-08-08T22:37:20Z")
I’m thinking–again–of going to school to become a massage therapist. I’ve wanted to do this for a long time, and I’m not getting any younger so this may be the time to consider it. I just wondered if there are any massa… --- ## [What economic theory should I read that isn't BS?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-economic-theory-should-i-read-that-isnt-bs/694651)
**Author:** [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [August 8, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-economic-theory-should-i-read-that-isnt-bs/694651 "2014-08-08T22:21:49Z")
What should I read if need a cold introduction to economics, something that has stood the test of time but isn’t a thinly disguised cultural polemic? I would really like to understand the technical fundamentals rather t… --- ## [What are some cool visual things to add to a room?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-cool-visual-things-to-add-to-a-room/695003)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 8, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-cool-visual-things-to-add-to-a-room/695003 "2014-08-08T20:30:52Z")
I found a tree frog had laid some eggs in a bucket outside that had a water plant in it, I dumped them into a larger glass container and damn they are hypnotic to watch. Reminds me of a fish tank, which I also love. I … --- ## [Poll: Would you pour ice watercover your head for charity?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-watercover-your-head-for-charity/695077)
**Author:** [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 8, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-watercover-your-head-for-charity/695077 "2014-08-08T19:49:44Z")
I’m sure you’ve seen the videos of people dumping ice,water over their head, in an effort to raise $/awareness of ALS. Would you do it? --- ## [Two questions on job hunting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-questions-on-job-hunting/694902)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 8, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-questions-on-job-hunting/694902 "2014-08-08T17:52:54Z")
A friend left their job because they were asked to do some unethical things from their boss and decided they didn’t want to work in such a situation. The last straw was when the boss asked them to give preferential tr… --- ## [What's a reputable "sponsor a child" charity?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-reputable-sponsor-a-child-charity/429700)
**Author:** [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [August 8, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-reputable-sponsor-a-child-charity/429700 "2014-08-08T16:46:00Z")
My niece and nephew are extremely privileged. They’re teenagers and they have more money in their bank accounts/higher credit limits than I have (they’re allowed to use their parents cards up to a certain amount). I’ve… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1047) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1049)